Planning a renovation or new build? Here's the outlook for skyrocketing steel and timber prices
- Written by Flavio Macau, Associate Dean - School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
It’s a tough time to build or renovate a house in Australia. Prices are up, well above inflation. Finding materials and getting them on time is a challenge. Builders are grappling with too much work and stress (with some folding as costs rise too fast). Customers are being confronted with eye-watering price quotes.
And as any would-be home...